VIDEO, Spielberg Lincoln Trailer : The movie is, among other things, a message to the President: it is not enough to make fine and noble speeches. In democratic politics, you have to get tough and dirty. You have to use patronage, personal persuasion, threats, whatever is at your command

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"Lincoln made it possible for you to be President, and now—in order to get policies, which you know are just, through the Congress—you have to imitate the crafty and manipulative things he did."

The Republicans are now in 2012 extremely arrogant and aggressive. They lost the Election but act as arrogant victors. 

Republicans want to be "Mitt Romneys", that is "School Bullies", "Brutal Barbers", "Fake Cops", and "47% haters" ..... 


The President should not be a Sissy before these Cretins !

President Obama :

Be a Macho Macho !
Mucho Macho !

The VIDEO of Spielberg's Lincoln Trailer is at the Bottom of this page

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The New Yorker
Six Footnotes to the Greatness of “Lincoln”
by David Denby
November 17, 2012

Six Footnotes to the Greatness of “Lincoln”

Some excerpts :

The Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves—that is, taking them away from the South as property—came in 1863, a year and a half in the past. But, as Lincoln explains in the first cabinet scene, he’s not sure the Supreme Court will uphold the War Powers Act; the proclamation made under the act could be abrogated. The South is falling apart, close to surrender, and the Southern states, defeated, and reëntering the Congress—as Lincoln had always wanted—will never ratify the amendment. After the war, they could reclaim their slaves as property. He wants the amendment to pass before the surrender. The above is a bald summary. Lincoln’s actual explanation, which is frankly opportunistic yet subtle, is far more detailed—a stunning example of principle and power fitting into a legal framework that will make a President’s intentions last as something more than moral sentiment.

Lincoln has the entire Republican vote on his side, though, in the House of Representatives, the support is divided into two groups. There are the radical Republicans led by the sulfurous abolitionist Stevens, who wants complete equality for the Negro and also the South punished and reduced to poverty. And there are the conservative Republicans, led by a prominent civilian, Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), who founded the party as an abolitionist organization but wants something less than full equality for Negroes. Blair goes on a mission to Richmond, the capitol of the Confederacy, to solicit a peace offer, which Lincoln wants—but not quite yet.

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THE VIDEO :

 Published on Sep 13, 2012 by movieclipsTRAILERS

As the Civil War nears its end, President Abraham Lincoln clashes with members of his cabinet over the issue of abolishing slavery.

Lincoln Official Trailer #1 (2012) Steven Spielberg Movie HD 




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